Last ones left alive by Sarah Davis-Goff
Orpen is travelling alone across Ireland. She’s left the only home she ever knew and is looking for something. She’s left safety and security to risk her life out in the...
10 April 2019
Nought forever by Malorie Blackman
A long time ago I read the first three books in the Noughts and Crosses series by Blackman, and really, really enjoyed them. But for some reason I never got to...
2 April 2019
Crimson by Niviaq Korneliussen
translated by Anna Helger I have no idea how I came across this book. Did someone recommend it to me? All I know is that it showed up as a library...
3 March 2019
Goddess by Kelly Gardiner
I came across a mention of Julie d’Aubugny when Oisin McGann retweeted a Quite Interesting fact about her Has anyone written a biography or fictionalised account, cause I'd so read that!...
23 February 2019
The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
Doesn’t Christmas feel a long time ago, but that isn’t true, it was less than a month ago. In the leadup I started reading this collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories,...
20 January 2019
The Thing About Ghost Stories by Naomi Kritzer
Available online – Uncanny Magazine Issue 25 Why do we tell ghost stories, or read or listen to them? Maybe you believe in ghosts, maybe you don’t, maybe you want to....
3 January 2019
His last bow by Arthur Conan Doyle
Containing – “The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge” (1908), “The Adventure of the Cardboard Box” (1892), “The Adventure ,of the Red Circle” (1911), “The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans” (1908), “The Adventure...
28 October 2018
A star is born dir. by Bradley Cooper
I liked this film. I thought everything about it was well done. The performances were great. The story and writing was good. The direction and look of the film, it all...
28 October 2018
The apostle dir. by Gareth Evans
Where to start with this film… Well, I guess with where it starts, with a man. Brooding, unhappy. With a past. And a missing sister he must rescue. As for where...
14 October 2018
Confronting the classics by Mary Beard
I feel like I’ve been reading this book since forever, which is pretty much true as I started reading it back in February. But it is a collection of essays/reviews so...
29 September 2018
Ip man dir. by Wilson Yip
It is 1935, and everyone in Foshan, China lives a wonderful life. Martial arts schools are everywhere, and Foshan has some of the best. But one master, Ip Man, does not...
3 September 2018
The Martian obelisk by Linda Nagata
Humanity is dying out. Climate change. Terrorism. Disease. People have accepted that these is no future, just a slow decline and then they’ll be no more. The colonies on Mars have...
16 July 2018
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